Word: affected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full of imponderables as any that had gone before. Why, for example, had the tiny circle of men who rule the Soviet Union risked another short-term regime and picked Chernenko, 72, the oldest man ever selected to hold the country's most important position? How would that choice affect the lives?and indeed the spirits?of 274 million Soviets, who had watched Andropov begin to energize a cumbersome economic system only to leave the task undone...
...affect the way I vote. I like Mondale." Tomkinson had already met Mondale in person-twice. -By Evan Thomas...
...prospects of a nuclear winter also should affect thinking about extended deterrence the dependence on U.S. intermediate and intercontinental nuclear forces to prevent a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. A nuclear winter implies that the U.S. cannot credibly extend its nuclear umbrella since like a first strike a nuclear attack in response to a conventional assault is certain suicide...
...have to get people involved by discussing matters that will directly affect them," said Vanessa A. Davila '84, a Leverett House representative...
David is the oldest survivor of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a class of genetic defects that affect about 60 to 100 American newborns a year. Most die by age two. Children with SCID lack specialized white blood cells called Tcells, which help defend the body against viruses and other invaders. T-cells are ordinarily produced in an immature form in the bone marrow and come to maturity in the thymus (hence the T). The only cure for SCID is a transplant of healthy marrow, a bloodlike fluid found in large bones. But such transplants are difficult, since donated marrow must...